Detecting mammoth remains with soft tissues and feathers

According to a press release from Northeastern Federal University (Russia), in a joint expedition with Japanese colleagues at Kindai University, scientists from the two schools and Fuji TV company found in the region. Verkhoyansk, Northeast Yakutia remains of a mammoth with soft tissues and feathers.

Specifically, experts from the Northern Institute of Experimental Ecology and Japan's Kindai University found an incomplete skeleton of a mammoth on August 12 in the lower reaches of the Jan River in the Yunyugen region, where there is the so-called . Now scientists continue excavations and no other details of the search until the expedition returned to Batagay village.

Russian and Japanese scientists continue to excavate the place where mammoth remains are found - (Photo: Northeast Federal University (Russia)).

Previously, in September 2017 at the 7th International Conference on Mammoths and Mammoths' relatives in Taiwan, researcher Gavril Novgorodov announced that the Yunyugen region with "ghost mammoth cemetery sucking " most promising in Yakutia both in terms of the number of bones and the most complete components of fossil animals of the late Pleistocene.

According to scientists, there is a thermokarst Batagaika hole which is a huge hollow pit formed by permafrost. This day due to the warming of the Earth's temperature, the surface soil and beneath the crater Batagaika collapsed. The study of sediments here has helped scientists discover many useful information about past changes.

Also according to the press release of the Northeastern Federal University, before this expedition, scientists discovered at a thermokarst Batagaika hole one of about 30-40 thousand years old. This new discovery will provide scientists with a unique and insightful look at the development of horses.